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Ad Code: 4
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"Bermuda" 1939
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Mr. Herman Van Cott was born in Albany, NY in March 1901 and died in FL in May 1978. He had a long and interesting career having studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, later graduating from the School of Art and Architecture at Yale University with the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1924. For several years he was engaged in mural painting and advertising art in New York City. At the world's Fair in 1938, he painted the murals on two buildings, one the entrance to The Court of States and the other the Operations Building.
At the outbreak of the war, he was appointed Chief Designer of Army Exhibits Section, Bureau of Public Relations, Office of Sec. of War. One of his outstanding accomplishments at that time was the planning of the "Back the Attack" show on the mall surrounding the Washington Monument which was visited by over a million and a half persons. At the conclusion of the war, Van Cott joined the newly formed Army Medical Illustration Service of the Army Institute of Pathology and organized its Scientific Illustration Division. In 1953 he was appointed Chief of the AFIP Medical Illustration Service, and from then until his retirement in 1963 was instrumental in the design and construction of AFIP medical and scientific exhibits that won over 130 awards at national and international medical meeting and scientific assemblies.
Provided by Barbara Reed who was given the biographical information by her grandmother, Herman's sister.
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born in Albany, New York, Herman Van Cott was a painter and decorator
whose work included murals of which one was exhibited in the New York
World's Fair of 1939.
Van Cott studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Yale School of Fine Art.
Exhibition venues included the Salons of America and the New York Watercolor Society.
Source:
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
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